Oh Perki - I don't have any friends with high roof vans and OH will never pay that much... The owner said it would go into smaller sections and definitely fit in the car. The bump thing is a good point, given the state of roads here in Lincs. We do have a bit of an advantage here on Ebay (when we're buying, not selling) that a lot of people can't be bothered to come here and pick stuff up because it's not local to anyone.
Thanks guys - it comes up on Saturday. I'll let you all know what happens. I 'watched' an identical one, but from further away, and it went for £92. Told OH I would bid just over £50, but reckon if I went up to £100 I could get away with it. The distance is a real advantage cos would cost nothing in petrol - I could play that card....?
The old al nuts and bolts holding it together may be seized. if so when you come to take it apart they will just snap off. An old one I moved did this. No worries, either use a bit of WD40 on them before you start or invest in new ones, they are easily available and cheap. If you have to take it apart completely have a marker pen and number individual components so that it's obvious where they go when you re-erect it.
When you say it's 10 mins away is that by car? If on foot I was going to say that we got our 2nd one from a bloke 10 mins walk up the road, we took it apart as others have instructed. We got 4 friends to help and we carried each part complete with glass home. All had protective gloves and sunspecs on. Took a while and it wasn't a windy day. Got a few funny looks.
As Mr Raspberry says it's important that you number the pieces. 1 1a ,2 2a, etc.
My suggestion is that if you have a GH regardless of cost, you'll be outside and OH can play pool undisturbed.
I am an inveterate collector of what She who MUST ABE OBEYED junk. I had an offer of a 6 X 12 greenhouse. Collect it. From 1/2 a mile away. In the back of a Rover 2000 estate, On a windy day. With a bad back., No previous experience.
It took 2 hours to dismantle the glass house, develop a quick system of getting all the clips, bolts, screws, bracing stays, whatchyamcallits and thingummy-bobs together in a disintegrating cardboard box.
One hour later, after a cuppa tea, I started UN-loading the car near to the lotty gate. Two hours later, several cuts to chilly fingers, and haemorrhaging only slightly, I handled all the pieces into the lotty, and surveyed the land space. I eventually situated it by a sort of natural Feng Shui , paced out the space needed, and all of a sudden, after a blinding bolt of light from on high, and a loud and crashing outburst of the Hallelujah Chorus, followed by Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Arisin', I felt that I had to lift up the assembled but empty framework,rather like a tortoise, and walked it into a proposed site for it. it seemed to fit like a glove. I dug a trench around for laying some blocks, to rest the frame upon. Levelled it all out by eye, and within another hour, had it located onto the blocks, suitably tilted so that the rain off the roof would rdrain off and into the runaway holes in the guttering. It took 5 hours to clean the glass that I hadn't
t broken, repaired the sliding door to slide smoothly, and I dare say, it was only a week before I was actually USING the thing !
Now, for a moody old bugger like myself, back problems and copious bleeding into the bargain, I think it was a job that came together so well, it was meant to be. If I can do it, ANYBODY can. It is still standing, and costs about ??25 per year in storm damage, but is a pleasure beyond price.
Thank you all. I shall add WD40 to the list of stuff to take then! Like most people in Lincolnshire, we will have all the necessary stuff - hoarding is very easy in a county where people have so much space - it is customary to have about 4 sheds!! KEF - it is 10 mins by car. Most places and things are 'by car' round here. Peat, I enjoyed your account of the greenhouse move - most re-assuring. I have the space already earmarked, although I will have to move some stuff about - there are currently pallets of bricks, breeze blocks, a box of building stone, a compost bin and a lot of roofing pantiles there (hoarded obviously!) I will report back this evening on whether or not I am successful. There seems to be quite a bit of interest, but the price hasn't gone too high yet.
Well...... the good news is I won. The bad news is, I bid about twice as much as I told OH I would, and in the end, my bid of £102.55 at the 15 seconds left moment, won it for £102. Currently cringing in readiness for the argument . He doesn't realise how valuable a greenhouse down the road actually is, given it takes half a tank of petrol to get to most places. I have already bought some cucumber seed to wave at him in self defence. Please could you all suggest some excuses I might be able to use.....? You know those women who sneak clothes and shoes into their wardrobe and then say 'this ole thing? why I've had it for years', well I'm not that sort of woman, but a greenhouse is going to be a bit unmissable!
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Oh Perki - I don't have any friends with high roof vans
and OH will never pay that much... The owner said it would go into smaller sections and definitely fit in the car. The bump thing is a good point, given the state of roads here in Lincs. We do have a bit of an advantage here on Ebay (when we're buying, not selling) that a lot of people can't be bothered to come here and pick stuff up because it's not local to anyone.
Well good luck keeps us updated on hopefully your winning bid
Good luck Busy Bee 2 hope you get the GH. It will be worth all the hassle.
Thanks guys - it comes up on Saturday. I'll let you all know what happens. I 'watched' an identical one, but from further away, and it went for £92. Told OH I would bid just over £50, but reckon if I went up to £100 I could get away with it. The distance is a real advantage cos would cost nothing in petrol - I could play that card....?
The old al nuts and bolts holding it together may be seized. if so when you come to take it apart they will just snap off. An old one I moved did this. No worries, either use a bit of WD40 on them before you start or invest in new ones, they are easily available and cheap. If you have to take it apart completely have a marker pen and number individual components so that it's obvious where they go when you re-erect it.
BB2. Hope you get the GH
When you say it's 10 mins away is that by car? If on foot I was going to say that we got our 2nd one from a bloke 10 mins walk up the road, we took it apart as others have instructed. We got 4 friends to help and we carried each part complete with glass home. All had protective gloves and sunspecs on. Took a while and it wasn't a windy day. Got a few funny looks.
As Mr Raspberry says it's important that you number the pieces. 1 1a ,2 2a, etc.
My suggestion is that if you have a GH regardless of cost, you'll be outside and OH can play pool undisturbed.
It took 2 hours to dismantle the glass house, develop a quick system of getting all the clips, bolts, screws, bracing stays, whatchyamcallits and thingummy-bobs together in a disintegrating cardboard box.
One hour later, after a cuppa tea, I started UN-loading the car near to the lotty gate. Two hours later, several cuts to chilly fingers, and haemorrhaging only slightly, I handled all the pieces into the lotty, and surveyed the land space. I eventually situated it by a sort of natural Feng Shui , paced out the space needed, and all of a sudden, after a blinding bolt of light from on high, and a loud and crashing outburst of the Hallelujah Chorus, followed by Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Arisin', I felt that I had to lift up the assembled but empty framework,rather like a tortoise, and walked it into a proposed site for it. it seemed to fit like a glove. I dug a trench around for laying some blocks, to rest the frame upon. Levelled it all out by eye, and within another hour, had it located onto the blocks, suitably tilted so that the rain off the roof would rdrain off and into the runaway holes in the guttering. It took 5 hours to clean the glass that I hadn't
t broken, repaired the sliding door to slide smoothly, and I dare say, it was only a week before I was actually USING the thing !
Now, for a moody old bugger like myself, back problems and copious bleeding into the bargain, I think it was a job that came together so well, it was meant to be. If I can do it, ANYBODY can. It is still standing, and costs about ??25 per year in storm damage, but is a pleasure beyond price.
Thank you all. I shall add WD40 to the list of stuff to take then! Like most people in Lincolnshire, we will have all the necessary stuff - hoarding is very easy in a county where people have so much space - it is customary to have about 4 sheds!! KEF - it is 10 mins by car. Most places and things are 'by car' round here. Peat, I enjoyed your account of the greenhouse move - most re-assuring. I have the space already earmarked, although I will have to move some stuff about - there are currently pallets of bricks, breeze blocks, a box of building stone, a compost bin and a lot of roofing pantiles there (hoarded obviously!) I will report back this evening on whether or not I am successful. There seems to be quite a bit of interest, but the price hasn't gone too high yet.
hope you get it busy. when i needed to move my old greenhouse OH took out the glass and we just picked it up and carried it
Well...... the good news is I won. The bad news is, I bid about twice as much as I told OH I would, and in the end, my bid of £102.55 at the 15 seconds left moment, won it for £102. Currently cringing in readiness for the argument
. He doesn't realise how valuable a greenhouse down the road actually is, given it takes half a tank of petrol to get to most places. I have already bought some cucumber seed to wave at him in self defence. Please could you all suggest some excuses I might be able to use.....? You know those women who sneak clothes and shoes into their wardrobe and then say 'this ole thing? why I've had it for years', well I'm not that sort of woman, but a greenhouse is going to be a bit unmissable!